It really just means "any scary looking gun that we don't like and want to ban," so please spare me the nitpicking for using the term to cover semiauto ARs. We lost that definitional battle a long time ago. You may reject all of the rationales offered above, which is fine. It's totally respectable for you to admit that you don't believe the rationales for AR ownership outlined above are legitimate, and therefore we should outlaw civilian ownership of a very large category of weapons.
But what isn't respectable is to argue this way, and then to turn around and claim that "nobody is coming for your guns! Stop doing that. If you're serious about banning guns, you can talk about banning all semiautomatic guns, or about restricting guns to a list of approved models or actions. This is may not be politically realistic at the moment, but at least it's consistent and rational.
But talk of banning just the "AR" — as if that's a specific model of gun that you can just up and ban — is technologically infeasible and ultimately counterproductive.
All you do when you make a lot of noise about assault weapon bans, noise that you can't even remotely back up with legislative action, is boost sales of the very weapons you hope to eliminate. Truly, if you're gonna kill the king, you gotta kill the king; you can't just loudly threaten to kill the king, then lamely attempt to give him a wedgie and fail at even that , and then not expect blowback.
For what it's worth, I do actually believe the fact that this violent nutjob who had been interviewed by the FBI three times was able to get a gun is so obviously messed up that it's foolish to suggest otherwise. In an even slightly less crazy world, this guy would never have had a weapon — not even a Cricket children's rifle.
I'm gonna be super duper honest, here: I think even the NRA is looking at "unhinged Muslim guy who had ISIS sympathies" and also thinking that such a person probably should not have had access to guns albeit for different reasons than your typical leftie. But just like when you're in the supermarket and you see some awful parent verbally abusing their kids and you think, "this person should have been sterilized before it got this far," but you'd never actually suggest that because you don't want anyone sterilizing you , the NRA is not likely to express this sentiment in public.
I think the way forward is to forget about the "what" and focus relentlessly and viciously on the "who. That's a tall order, and it requires a ton of care if we're going to respect all parts of the Bill of Rights.
But I think if we all start with a few things that we agree on and then work from there, then there may be some hope of keeping guns out of the hands of crazed loners. It's a Gadget. This piece covers the history, development, and present culture around the black rifle. More recently, I've written on the assault weapons ban in the context of a discussion of smart guns for Tech Crunch : "Why the NRA hates smart guns. This article was adapted from a post that originally ran on Medium.
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Gun buyers have snapped up military hardware because that is often the very best hardware they can get their hands on If you're prepared to answer "yes" to all of the above and consider the case closed, then please move on and don't read anymore.
Civilians have always been drawn to "weapons of war" The AR was originally designed as a weapon of war, for man-killing and not for hunting or for target shooting — this is an obvious fact. The meaningless distinction between "defense rifles" and "assault rifles" At this point, you may be thinking: "But why can't you just buy a defense rifle or other 'defensive' firearm instead of an assault rifle?
The way forward is to forget about the "what" and focus relentlessly and viciously on the "who. If you're gonna kill the king, you gotta kill the king So there you have it: The above represents a few reasons why I and a few million other non-crazy Americans own and shoot so-called semiauto "assault rifles. What is to be done? Culture Yellowjackets brilliantly mixes teen angst, cannibalism, and midlife crises — with major Lost vibes.
Explainers The big questions about Covid booster shots. The Goods Is there a Thanksgiving turkey shortage? An investigation. Sign up for the newsletter Sign up for The Weeds Get our essential policy newsletter delivered Fridays. Thanks for signing up! Check your inbox for a welcome email. Gun advocates counter that most murders involve handguns.
Of California killings in in which the type of gun was determined, involved handguns, 34 were committed with rifles and 26 were committed with shotguns, according to the FBI. His words infuriated gun control proponents — including Gov. Supreme Court. With the overturning of the ban, California is poised to again be at the center of the gun debate — a state with an alarming amount of gun crime and a reputation for relatively strict laws, but one where sales figures reveal a huge appetite for firearms.
Last year, an estimated 1. The gun data, from the journalism nonprofit the Trace, show sales continue to peak this year. There were spikes at the start of the pandemic, the aftermath of the George Floyd murder and near the U. Judge Benitez wrote that more than , guns now defined as California assault weapons are registered in the state, meaning they were bought before the sales ban and grandfathered in.
At Coyote Point, customers waited in line to discuss handgun options, and one man hauled in a metal ammunition case to fill. The phone rang repeatedly. Parkin grew up hunting deer. The fourth-generation Californian has watched California institute gun restrictions that, he says, do nothing. In January of that year, a man had shot up a Stockton schoolyard with dozens of rounds from a semiautomatic rifle, killing five children and wounding 29 others and a teacher.
The law initially banned the sale of more than 50 models of semiautomatic rifles and pistols. A semiautomatic gun is one that automatically loads the next round of ammunition, but requires a pull of the trigger for each shot. Legislators could add models to the banned list as they came to their attention, but gun manufacturers continually circumvented the law by changing the names of models. Later, certain characteristics of weapons were prohibited. The ban has survived earlier court challenges, often by the National Rifle Association and its gun advocacy affiliates.
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